The Chindamo Secret

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The murder of Philip Lawrence, the headmaster who went to the aid of a pupil being attacked by a teenage gang, aroused a national sense of revulsion that, 12 years on, has not subsided. He died of stab wounds inflicted by Learco Chindamo, a violent and illiterate boy of 15. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a tariff that, taking his age into account, was set at 12 years.

The Government, anticipating his release on parole next year, intended to deport Chindamo, now aged 26, to his native Italy, where he was born to an Italian father and a